| 179901. |
Name The Year: Thomas H. Gallaudet, pioneer of educating the deaf, born.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179902. |
Name The Year: Cesar Franck (in Belgium), composer, born.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179903. |
Name The Year: George Macdonald, Scottish novelist (Lilith), born.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179904. |
Name The Year: Emily Dickinson (in Amherst, Mass), poet, born.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179905. |
Name The Year: Melvil Dewey, created the Dewey Decimal System for libraries
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179906. |
Name The Year: Alfred Nobel dies; Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179907. |
Name The Year: Spanish-American War ends -- U.S. acquires Guam, Puerto Rico, the Phillipines, and Cuba from Spain.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179908. |
Name The Year: First Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy).
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179909. |
Name The Year: Pres. Theodore Roosevelt (first American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179910. |
Name The Year: Dorothy Lamour (in New Orleans, LA), actor (Road to Bali), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179911. |
Name The Year: UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179912. |
Name The Year: First Human Rights Day.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179913. |
Name The Year: Susan Dey, actor (First Love, LA Law), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179914. |
Name The Year: Nia Peeples born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179915. |
Name The Year: Zanzibar gains independence from Britain.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179916. |
Name The Year: Israeli hmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179917. |
Name The Year: Singer Otis Redding dies in plane crash at 26.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179918. |
Name The Year: Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179919. |
Name The Year: Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179920. |
Name The Year: South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179921. |
Name The Year: (US) Gugliemo Marconi sends the first wireless message across the Atlantic.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179922. |
Name The Year: (Ireland) Martial Law Declared.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179923. |
Name The Year: A general election results in a hung Parliament in the UK. James MacDonald, of the UK Labor Party wins the follow-up election next year.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179924. |
Name The Year: (UK) King George V crowned Emperor of India and founds New Dehli to replace Calcutta as the capital.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179925. |
Name The Year: (Germany) Hugo Junkers completes the first all metal airplane.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179926. |
Name The Year: The first "motel" opens in California's San Luis Obispo.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179927. |
Name The Year: Kenyan Independance Day.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179928. |
Name The Year: US, Japan, UK & France sign a treaty aimed at controlling naval build-up in the Pacific Ocean.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179929. |
Name The Year: Lebanon and Syria are made independent.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179930. |
Name The Year: Amundsen of Norway reaches the south pole.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179931. |
Name The Year: Women get the vote in Turkey
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179932. |
Name The Year: Portugese President Sidonio Paes is assassinated.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179933. |
Name The Year: (Geneva, Switzerland) China and Austria added to Leauge of Nations
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179934. |
Name The Year: Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179935. |
Name The Year: English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Cromwell's Revolution.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179936. |
Name The Year: Ludwig von Beethoven (in Bonn, Germany), composer, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179937. |
Name The Year: Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor. Indians welcome. British unwelcome.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179938. |
Name The Year: Jane Austen (in England), novelist (Pride and Prejudice), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179939. |
Name The Year: George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179940. |
Name The Year: Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179941. |
Name The Year: Sir Noel Coward, playwright, born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179942. |
Name The Year: "Variety", covering all phases of show business, first published.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179943. |
Name The Year: South Pole first reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179944. |
Name The Year: Arthur C. Clarke, science-fiction author (2001, Childhood's End), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179945. |
Name The Year: Liv Ullman (in Tokyo, Japan), actor (Cries and Whispers), born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179946. |
Name The Year: Battle of the Bulge begins.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179947. |
Name The Year: Gemini VI returns to Earth.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179948. |
Name The Year: Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179949. |
Name The Year: France recognizes the independance of the 13 US colonies.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179950. |
Name The Year: Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179951. |
Name The Year: Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179952. |
Name The Year: New York City traffic regulation creates the first one-way street.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179953. |
Name The Year: "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published in London.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179954. |
Name The Year: Violent bread riots at Montreal.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179955. |
Name The Year: At 10:35AM, for 12 seconds, first sustained motorized aircraft flight (36 meters) by Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, NC.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179956. |
Name The Year: Willard Frank Libby, invented carbon-14 "atomic clock", born.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179957. |
Name The Year: Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179958. |
Name The Year: First movie opening simultaneously in major cities "On The Beach".
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1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179959. |
Name The Year: Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle).
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179960. |
Name The Year: Charles Wesley, cofounder of Methodist movement
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179961. |
Name The Year: Elizabeth, empress of Russia (to Peter the Great and Catherine I)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179962. |
Name The Year: Antonio Stradivari, violin maker, dies.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179963. |
Name The Year: Joseph Grimaldi, English pantomimist, "greatest clown in history"
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179964. |
Name The Year: William Bond obtains first photograph of moon through a telescope.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179965. |
Name The Year: Paul Klee, Swiss abstract painter
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179966. |
Name The Year: Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179967. |
Name The Year: Auto speed record set -- 63 kph.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179968. |
Name The Year: George Grant wins patent for his golf tee.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179969. |
Name The Year: Willy Brandt (SD), chancellor of West Germany (1969-74) (Nobel '71)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179970. |
Name The Year: Betty Grable (in St. Louis, MO), actor
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179971. |
Name The Year: Mohammed Ali, boxer
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179972. |
Name The Year: Keith Richard, guitarist (Rolling Stones)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179973. |
Name The Year: Uruguay joined the United Nations.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179974. |
Name The Year: Steven Spielberg, director (Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc.)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179975. |
Name The Year: Japan admitted to the United Nations.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179976. |
Name The Year: Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day).
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179977. |
Name The Year: India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179978. |
Name The Year: Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic. Ends two week Gemini VII flight.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179979. |
Name The Year: The British parliament voted for the abolition of death penalty.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179980. |
Name The Year: US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179981. |
Name The Year: Soyuz 13 launched into earth orbit for 8 days.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179982. |
Name The Year: Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin suffered a fatal heart attack at 76.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179983. |
Name The Year: UN Security Council unanimously condemns 'acts of hostage-taking'.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179984. |
Name The Year: Philip V, first Bourbon king of Spain (1700-46)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179985. |
Name The Year: Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe).
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179986. |
Name The Year: Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack".
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179987. |
Name The Year: Vitus Bering, Dutch navigator and explorer, died.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179988. |
Name The Year: Thomas Paine publishes his first 'American Crisis' essay.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179989. |
Name The Year: Sir William Parry, British Arctic explorer
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179990. |
Name The Year: Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer, women's suffrage leader
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179991. |
Name The Year: Leonid Brezhnev (in Ukraine), Soviet statesman, in the Ukraine
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179992. |
Name The Year: Jean Genet, French novelist and playwright (The Blacks)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179993. |
Name The Year: British Broadcasting Corp. began transmitting overseas.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179994. |
Name The Year: War broke out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacked the French.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179995. |
Name The Year: Jennifer Beals (in Chicago), actor (Flashdance)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179996. |
Name The Year: Alyassa Milano, actor (Who's the Boss)
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179997. |
Name The Year: Apollo 17 returns to Earth.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179998. |
Name The Year: USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 179999. |
Name The Year: Russian calendar adjusted so Russian New Year occurs on January 1st, instead of September 1st.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
| 180000. |
Name The Year: Turkey cedes the island of Crete to the Egyptians.
|
1 |
1 |
100 |